Player Comparison 1

My gut tells me that the Red Sox are so much better off with Kevin Youkilis at 1st base than they were last year with Kevin Millar but I wanted to check that feeling against the numbers. Here's where both players stood at the end of May:

Millar 2005 - .237 BA / 14 R / 2 HR / 22 RBI / 48 G
Youkilis 2006 - .317 BA / 38 R / 5 HR / 24 RBI / 48 G

After the exact same number of games played - the only place it is even close is in RBI which is only because Youkilis has been batting leadoff most of the year. I haven't even mentioned how much better a fielder Youkilis is than Millar. It still steams me that Millar played while Youkilis sat last year but at least now we have a vast improvement at 1st.